Lollapalooza 1991: Now THAT was a concert!

Wednesday, August 7, 1991: A sunny day at Toronto’s CNE Grandstand, and what a lineup:

• Butthole Surfers
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• My first chance to see Nine Inch Nails
• Living Colour
• Ice-T and Body Count
• Rollins Band
• Jane’s Addiction

…and after the show, we continued the fun at a normally sad nightclub near the airport that had their “alt-rock” night on Wednesdays.

There was already a feeling that interesting things were happening in music. Big Audio Dynamite had put out their single Rush a couple of months prior…

…and we had no idea of the musical gems that were still forthcoming:

• Nirvana hadn’t yet released Nevermind,
• Pearl Jam hadn’t yet released Ten,
• Soundgarden hadn’t yet released Badmotorfinger,
• Red Hot Chili Peppers hadn’t yet released Blood Sugar Sex Magik,
• U2 hadn’t yet released Achtung Baby,
• Metallica hadn’t yet released Smell the Glove — but seriously, the black album (the one with Enter Sandman),
• Ministry hadn’t yet released Psalm 666,
• Public Enemy hadn’t yet released Apocalypse 1991…The Enemy Strikes Black (with the heavy metal version of Bring the Noize),
• 2 Unlimited hadn’t yet released Get Ready for This,
• A Tribe Called Quest hadn’t yet released The Low End Theory,
• Black Sheep hadn’t yet released A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,
• 2Pac hadn’t yet released 2Pacalypse Now,
• Del tha Funkee Homosapien hadn’t yet released I Wish My Brother George Was Here…

…and I was a DJ at Crazy Go Nuts University back then. Great times!